Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the pre-construction phase of the development of the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing, fundraising for the capital campaign, and core staffing

Transform 1012 N. Main Street

to support the project's core staffing needs and continued planning activities

Capacity Building and Planning Support

Henry Street Children's School

TRANSform Dance Program

to support the Ultraviole(n)t Exposures project, including salaries for staff and research assistants, fellowships, public programming, a digital humanities platform, and the construction of a traveling shade event and exhibition space

Ultraviole(n)t Exposures

to support Rennie Harris's company and curriculum, to broaden public understanding of hip-hop aesthetics and street dance culture

Building a Legacy of Street Dance

General Support

to support the development of partnerships in Puerto Rico

Partnership Development in Puerto Rico

to support a collaborative artistic exchange project with Abrons Arts Center and Pública Espacio Cultural

Abrons Arts Center/Pública Espacio Cultural  Partnership

to support Christopher Nuñez's creative and administrative collaborators and organizational design

Christopher Nuñez and Audio Dance: The regenerative power of sound and movement on the body

to help meet the cost of a new headquarters building

Children's School

to support the American Realness dance festival

American Realness

Arts Center Construction

American Realness Festival

to support American Realness, a dance and contemporary performance festival

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to strengthen its curatorial staff and activities, and to improve and increase its research and publication

Curatorial Support

Decasia Live

Wavetree Ship Restoration

to support immediate relief efforts to restore museum operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy Relief

Development Program

for support of its library expansion program

Library Expansion Project

to support expenses of dance and theater organizations engaged to perform in the theater

The New Victory Theater

to support new commissions, a national choreographer competition, and strategic planning

Planning, Commissions, & National Choreographic Competition

to assist this community music school in its New Building and Program Development Fund

Development Program Building and Program Fund

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures

to support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to South Central

A Monument to South Central, sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles 

to support the maintenance of statues in the eastern part of Prospect Park, including the  newly commissioned monument to Shirley Chisholm

Prospect Park Sculpture Maintenance

to support the maintenance of monuments in the northern half of Central Park, including the monument to replace the removed monument to J. Marion Sims

Central Park Statue Maintenance

to establish a research and graduate training program on transformation

Indexing Transformation

to support graduate research on institutional culture and transformation

Higher Education Transformation

for an evaluation of processes of land transformation

Land Transformation Processes

to support planning for an evidence-based pedagogy and curricular transformation project

Inclusive Pedagogy/Curricular Transformation

to support a project on transformation in philosophy at South African universities

Rhodes-Wits Transforming Philosophy

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Documentary Media and Historical Transformation"

Sawyer Seminar: "Documentary Media and Historical Transformation"

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation"

Sawyer Seminars - Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University"

Sawyer Seminar: Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Comparative Wests: Transnational Perspectives on Rapid Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Transformations in the 19th-Century Settler Colonies of Western Australia,Western Canada, the Western United States, and the Pacific Islands"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative West: Transnational Perspectives on Rapid Cultural, Economic, & Environmental Transformation...

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Transmission, Containment, Transformation:  A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities"

Sawyer Seminar - Transmission, Containment, Transformation:  A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities

for research on spruce decline on coastal Maine

Forest Decline

toward costs of research on forest decline in Maine

Forest Research

Spruce Decline Research

Maritime Museum Program

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support the creation of an arts and humanities commons

New Commons

to support the further development of an open-source software system and related procedures for scholarly contributions to and use of the online catalog of the Medici archives

BIA Software Maintenance and Education

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 